Embroidering machine



Mar. 27, 1923- H. F. GALLAGHER ET AL EMBROIDERING MACHINE Filed Apr. 17, 1922 2 sheets-sheet 1 if! n Flg.2. I 11 My 7 \J ,1!

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HUGE F. GALLAGHER, OE PORTLAND, MAINE, AND MICHAEL P. GALLAGHER, 0E

LITTLETON, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

EMBROIDERING MACHINE.

Application filed, April 17, 1922. Serial No. 553,395

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HUGH F. GALLAGHER and MICHAEL P. GALLAGHER, citizens of the ,United States, and residents of Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, and Littleton, in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Embroidering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an implement for producing embroidery stitching or tufting in a fabric, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device of this character of increased efiiciency, utility and simplicity.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character including a coasting needle and plunger, and in which the plunger operates without in]ury to the body of the fabric.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved implement,

Fig. 2 is side elevation of the same viewed from the plunger side,

se section, enlarged,v on the line 6-6 4 m it comprises a body aving ng handle 11 at an in natebearing 12 in mounted for rotation.

d of a body porre bearing 12 and the opposite I secured in posior the like. The are provided 18 extending from the flanges and at diagrammatically opposite points, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The crank pins are extended respectively into crank arms 19 and 20, the crank arms terminating in stub shafts 21 and 22 in alinement with each other and with the center of the face wheel.

Attached to the opposite faces of the body 10 are hangers 23 and 24C in the lower free ends of which the stub'shafts 21 and 22 are journalled. By this means the crank arms and crank pins are effectually supported for rotation with the face wheel, an operating crank arm 25 being applied to one of the stub shafts, for instance the shaft 22.

At its lower portion thebody 10 is formed with spaced guide ribs 26 on one side and similar spaced guide ribs 27 on the other side, the confronting faces of the ribs being preferably overhung or dovetailed, as shown in Fig. 5. Slidable between the guide ribs 27 is a guide member 28 having a projection or head 29 apertured to receive a needle 30, the latter held in position by a set screw 31.

Slidable between the guide ribs 26 is another guide member 32 having an enlargement or head 33 apertured to receive a plunger member 34, the latter held in place by aset screw At its upper end the guide member 28 is coupled to the crank pin 17 by a connect ing rod 36, so that the rotary motion of the face wheel will cause the guide member and needle to travel' vertically.

Pivoted at 37 to the guide member 32 is an E. shaped arm 38 with the terminals of its longer arm offset as shown at and engageable by the crank pin 18 when the face wheel is rotated.

Extending from the s ool: 10 is perforated lug 40 through whi a rod if is slida bly disposed, the lower end of the rod hepivoted at 42 to the shorter arm of the i haped lever 38. A spring the rod 41 between. the lug 0 and arm 38, and operates to maintain the guide member 32 and the piunger 3 L eldably in downward position, and the aid of the arm 38 in the path the era A stop loop at is ed to El and encloses the arm and L tion laterally to pivotally receive a bearing roller 48.

The fabric in which the thread is to be woven or tufted is indicated conventionally at 49 and preferably stretched relatively tight on a suitable holding frame, such as an embroidery frame indicated at 50.

The thread is indicated conventionally at 51, and is threaded through the eye of the needle, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

In starting the operation of the improved device, the handle 25 is first rotated to an intermediate position to bring the point of the needle 30 and the lower end of the plunger at the same level. The needle and plunger are then placed on the fabric 49 at the pointwhere the first stitch or tuft is to be made, and the crank 25 operated. to thrust the needle through the fabric carrying the thread with it, this ini-- tial movement of the plate 13 causing the pin 18 to engage the offset 39 of the arm 38 and elevate the guide member 32 and the plunger 34 carried thereby against the resistance of the spring 43, the upward movement of the plunger continuing until the pin 18 passes from beneath the overhang 39, when the plunger carrying member will be quickly released and moved downwardly by the reaction of the spring 43 and engaging the loop of the thread 51' at the polnt of the depressed needle below the line of the fabric 49, the sudden depression of the plunger taking place slightly before the beginning of the return stroke of the needle, and thus holding the loop of the thread and preventing 1t from being drawn upward by the return stroke of the needle. In its downward movement the lower portion of the plunger operates in the channel in the' needle, thereby obviating the cutting of an unnecessarily large opening through he fabric.

-By this means a loop is formed at each stroke of the needle and plunger, as will obvious.

The bearing wheel 48 insures the uniform action, and holds the device inproper relation to the fabric. I

After the loop or tuft has been produced it can be shirred at one side of-the fabric to produce a velvet-like effect.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawingsand set forth in the specification, but it will be understood that modifications within thev scope of the claimed invention may be madein the construction without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. In an implement of the class described, a supporting stock having spaced guldeways in its opposite faces, a needle head movable between said guideways at one side of the stock, a needle carried by said head, a plunger member movable between sald guideways at the other side of the stock and coacting with said needle, yieldable means said stock and engaging in the guidew-ayv of said needle, yieldable means for retaining said plunger normally in projected position, and means for alternately actuating said needle and the plunger against the resistance of said yield-able means.

3. In an implement of the class described, a supporting stock, a face wheel mounted for rotation in said stock and having crank pins extending from .its opposite faces and at diagrammatically opposite points, means for rotating said face wheel, guideways on the opposite faces of said stock, a head member slidable in each of said guideways, a needle secured in one of said head members, a plunger connected to the other of said head members and coacting with the needle, a connecting rod between said needle carrying head-and one of said crank pins, an arm pivoted at one end to the plunger carrying head and with an ofi'set at the other end extending into the path of the other of said crank pins, and yieldable means operating to swing said arm laterally head members, a plunger connected to the other of said-head members and coacting with the needle, a connecting rod between said needle carrying head and one of said and to maintain the plunger carrying head.

crank pins,an L shaped arm pivoted at its elbow to the plunger carrying head and with an offset at one end extending into the path of the other of said crank pins,

and yieldable means operating ontlie other end of the l. shaped arm to swing the same laterally and to maintain the plunger carrying head in its projected position.

5. In an implement of the class described, asupporting stock, a face wheel mounted for rotation in said stock and having crank pins extending from its opposite faces and at diagrammatically opposite points, crank arms carried respectively by said crank pins,

' brackets attached to said stock and rotatively supporting said crank arms, means applied to one of said crank arms for rotating the same and the face wheel connected therewith, guideways on the opposite faces of said stock, a head member slidable 2 in each of said guideways, a needle secured in one of said head members, a plunger connected to the other of said head members and coacting with the needle, a con-' head and with an offset at the other end extending into the path of the other of said crank pins, and yieldable means'operating to swing said arm laterally and to maintain the plunger carrying head in its projected position.

March 27, 1922.

- In testimony whereof, we affix our signatures hereto.

HUGH F. GALLAGHER. MICHAEL P. GALLAGHER. 

